Highways England Area 9 covers Gloucester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, Worcester and Herefordshire. Area 9 includes some of the UK’s busiest and most complex road systems, including Spaghetti Junction and parts of the M5, M6 and M42.

Highways England Areas 6 and 8 cover motorways and trunk roads in the east of England, including East Anglia. Since 2014, Inertia Consulting Ltd has worked with the main asset support contractor to inspect the many hundreds of bridges and other highway structures found within Areas 6 and 8, to assess their durability and safety.

Northumberland Park is a mainline railway station on the Lee Valley line, which forms part of the West Anglia Main Line. It serves the ward of Northumberland Park in Tottenham, providing a direct link into London Liverpool Street Station.

The project was a success, with a key benefit being the use of weathering steel for the main structure, as it avoids the need for maintenance – and associated disruption – during the bridge’s designed ‘in service’ life.

Salthouse Footbridge is located just north of Petts Wood Station and provides a public footpath over the South Eastern Main Line. The footbridge is part of a local route between green spaces and provides access to a school. Inertia Consulting Ltd were chosen to design a new bridge to modern standards to replace the original footbridge which was in poor …

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